There's a mysterious new guest on the territory, but it's just an after-dinner conversation for most people, and the impact on civilians is actually not as good as a new house in such and such an area, especially now that a lot of people are eyeing a new building on the east side of Knights' Street.

Cecil's first church was finally about to be built.

The priest Wright was visibly pleased that he had passed the lord's examination for more than two months, obtained permission to preach in Cecil's land, and had been given a piece of land allocated to him and the materials and personnel needed to build the church, and even with great enthusiasm and efficiency, the chapel had risen with astonishing speed—of course, because he had been moving bricks from the land for two months and had become so skillful.

The newly completed chapel looks very simple from the outside, although it also has the necessary spires, small towers, prayer halls and other facilities necessary for the Holy Light Church, but everything is mainly practical and sufficient, and there is no luxury style of the church in the central region with gold and silver on the walls, but it is still a beautiful new house, the church itself is combined with the small square in front of it, and the neat brick houses of Knight Street in the background, the first block in the territory that can be described as a "modern town" has finally begun to take shape.

And before the official opening of the church, the lord also arranged a small "opening ceremony" for it.

This was a strange form to the lords - it was rare for the big people in the realm to come forward and organize an event for the opening of a building.

Elsewhere, there is no specific, solemn ritual for the appearance of a new facility, and there are usually only some vulgar rules that are customary: before the artisan shop opens, a clay pot filled with ale is smashed at the door, on the one hand, to celebrate, and on the other hand, the aroma of the ale is used to advertise that a new shop is opened; After the completion of the new churches of each church, the priests and pastors inside organized some religious activities by themselves, and the pastors preached at the door, distributed wheat cakes, and so on; There will be some celebrations when the horse farms and theaters opened by the princes and nobles are completed, but they are all balls and drinking parties for the upper class, and they have nothing to do with the common people.

The ceremony, called "ribbon cutting", arranged by Gawain, seemed novel and inexplicable to people.

But the commoners of this era do not think deeply about these things that they think have nothing to do with their lives, anyway, the lord's arrangement is right, and for them, it is a joy to have something new happening in the territory - especially if this is a church that can bring convenience to life.

A large crowd gathered in the small square in front of the church, and they looked curiously at the still closed door of the church and the lords and others standing in front of it: Gawain stood with Herty and Rebecca, and next to them was the presence of the priest Mr. Wright, and in addition to them were some soldiers who were responsible for maintaining order on the scene.

In order to adapt to the popular aesthetics and habits of this world, as well as to produce more important "symbolic meaning", Gawain redesigned a set of so-called "ribbon-cutting" processes, he ordered people to tie symbolic colored knots on the church door, and also set up a barrier rope on the steps leading to the gate, to represent that the building was still blocked, and when the sun rose to its highest point, he appeared here to open the church as a lord.

In the midst of countless pairs of curious and awe-struck eyes, Hetty stepped forward, and with the blessing of magic, a voice that was soft but enough to resound throughout the audience reached everyone's ears: "Today is a day worth celebrating—Mr. Wright, the preacher of the God of Light, has brought the righteousness of the Holy Light to everyone, and our lord, Duke Gawain Cecil, believes that the Path of Light is beneficial to the realm, so he has approved the construction of this church, and personally congratulates the practice of the righteousness of the Holy Light—and now reads the Lord's Decree:

"At the request of the Light Missionary Wright, Lord Cecil Gawain Cecil has ruled that it is lawful and beneficial to spread the Light in this land, and hereby permits the missionary action of the Missionary Wright, and authorizes the establishment of a church."

Then, to the applause of the people, Gawain cut the rope that blocked him, and Hettie and Rebecca untied the colored knots on the church door.

Pastor Wright watched the whole process of this ceremony with curiosity, he seemed to feel that there was something deep in this ceremony, but he was not a "real clergyman" who was good at calculations after all, as a missionary who was almost kicked out of the Central Church, he had been spreading the doctrine according to his own understanding and way, so he soon stopped thinking about it - as long as he could preach smoothly, it would be a good thing, and the lord would come to congratulate him personally, which was even more a good thing. As for the fact that "the God of Light needs the approval of Gawain Cecil to build a church on a piece of land...... It doesn't matter, the church was built anyway.

To be honest, Wright even felt that Cecil was more interested in his own appetite: in other noble domains, he also needed to go to the local lord for permission to preach, and although almost every lord would agree, there had never been a place as formal and serious as Cecil Lord. The lords of the other noble lords did not allow the church to develop in their own territory, but rather completely ignored it, and the so-called "lord's permission" was just a formality, a mutual compromise and face respect between the church and the aristocratic forces, but in Cecil's lordship, this "permission" seemed much more formal.

Wright likes this kind of clear rules, because he has seen too many people suffer because of the chaotic rules - many people will complain that the lord makes life difficult because of too many rules, but few people realize that it is not the rules that make life difficult, but the rules that are made arbitrarily, all the time, and that even the lord himself does not intend to follow.

Here, apparently, this is not the case.

"Everyone who is interested in the way of the Light can come in and sit, the preaching hall is very large! Those who don't believe in the Holy Light but have a little illness or injury can also come, and there will be healing holy water here every day! Wright happily stood on the steps of the church door, and the loud shouting could be heard throughout the square, "But if you have a serious illness or injury, you should say it in advance, the holy water is processed from river water, and the effect is limited, and the serious illness still needs to be cured......"

Gawain stood aside and watched the endless stream of people who believed in the Holy Light or were about to receive the holy water enter the church, and listened to Wright's loud voice, and suddenly couldn't help laughing: it was the first time that a priest would take the initiative to admit that the raw material of the holy water was river water, and remind the holy water that the healing effect was not good......

Hetty stood beside Gawain, who had already seen some deep meaning in today's ceremony.

After seeing the occasional lord entering the church of the God of Light while thanking the lord, she whispered, "Ancestor, do you want to put the divine power under your control?" ”

"I don't really mean to hold any divine power, but I don't like to be controlled by divine power even more," Gawain said lightly, "The church is a good thing, and the divine arts, holy water, holy relics, and war priests are all good things, but if these things have their own system and will, it is not very good." ”

"Many nobles would be wary of the overdevelopment of the Church, but no one ever thought that it could be 'framed' in this way," Hetty said thoughtfully, "with clear laws that all religious activities must be approved by the lord, and ritualized actions to tell everyone who to listen to when the lord and the gods are together, and you have also shown the lord's support for the church in the process...... Ancestors, your actions are always unexpected. ”

Gawain shook his head: "It's not that no one has thought of using law and power to restrain the church, Hetty, I'm not the only smart person - it's just that none of them have this condition." We were fortunate that the Southside was a deserted, regressive land where there was a lot to build from scratch, and Wright was a true believer who was truly obsessed with the Way of Light rather than intrigues, so I was able to lay the foundation, but in the Central and North, where the power of the Church was already entrenched, I couldn't do that at all—just as you could see the meaning of my actions, and so could the shrewd bishops. ”

Hetty was stunned, and had to admit that Gawain saw this matter very clearly, but she was a little curious: "If you were in that kind of place, what would you do?" ”

"It's very simple, the fist is bigger than them," Gawain smiled, "Sometimes the problem that can't be solved with the brain is the simplest, just a fist." ”

Rebecca listened to the discussion between Herty and Gawain on the side, and basically didn't understand a word in the first half of the paragraph, but she understood Gawain's last sentence, and she especially agreed: "The ancestor is right!" It's not a problem if you can get through! ”

Gao Wen glanced at the iron-headed baby helplessly: "Can you listen to the whole point if you are obedient?" I've emphasized that you should use your brain before your fist! ”

Hetty just wanted to educate her, but an amber came out of nowhere: "She found that her brain was not ...... enough"

Before this shame of all things was beaten, Gawain pressed the other party's head with his own hands: "You don't find someone to tease you every day, your skin is itchy, right-what are you doing here?" Don't you like places like the Church of Light? ”

"I'm here to see the excitement - you let go, hey, you let go," Amber struggled under Gawain's men, and finally escaped from the clutches with a shadow shift, "I'll tell you, in fact, this priest gives me a good feeling, not as annoying as the Holy Light priests I've seen before......"

Gawain knew this half-elf very well, and only after the other party's BB was finished did he ask, "You should have something else to do besides watching the excitement, right?" ”

"Hey, an old bacon is pretty eye-catching...... Amber pouted, and then said quickly before being beaten again, "Pitman is looking for you—saying that there has been a breakthrough in research into the dosage of druids!" ”